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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?
(a) The magic of rainbows.
(b) The lover's nest.
(c) The refuge of the forest.
(d) Poetic imagery.

2. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?
(a) The need for poetic expression.
(b) The desire to find a new home.
(c) Hostility of the world.
(d) Scientific objectivity.

3. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Both are constructed of sturdy materials.
(b) Quasimodo considered the cathedral to be claustrophobic, like a snail shell.
(c) Quasimodo inhabited the cathedral, with its nooks and crannies, as a snail inhabits its shell.
(d) Both seem born of their surroundings.

4. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?
(a) The architect.
(b) The psychoanalyst.
(c) The scientist.
(d) The poet.

5. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?
(a) The personality of the artist.
(b) Market value of art.
(c) Isolated poetic images.
(d) Mental stability.

6. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?
(a) Scientist.
(b) Psychoanalyst.
(c) Architect.
(d) Poet.

7. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?
(a) Phenomenological value.
(b) Aesthetic value.
(c) Artistic value.
(d) Humanistic value.

8. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Anthropo-cosmology.
(c) Homology.
(d) Cosmology.

9. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Frequently, to add color and variety to expression.
(b) Frequently, to stimulate creativity.
(c) Rarely, only to add complexity to a poem.
(d) Rarely, only when words are inadequate.

10. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) Negative objectivity.
(b) Dry rationalism.
(c) Pop psychology.
(d) Dry poetics.

11. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphor of drawers to describe the human brain?
(a) A chest of drawers is finite, while the brain's capacity is infinite.
(b) Items get lost in drawers.
(c) He wonders how reason determines which drawer should contain each new object.
(d) He wonders how objects would be retrieved from the drawers.

12. For psychoanalysts, what do conflicted locks and keys in dreams symbolize?
(a) Temptations.
(b) Repression.
(c) New discoveries.
(d) Sexual intimacy.

13. Which is the best description of "La Redousse"?
(a) A massive house, well fortified and set alone on an island.
(b) A humble house with no apparent resistance on a hillside above the city.
(c) A humble house with no apparent resistance set alone on an island.
(d) A massive house, well fortified and on a hillside above the city.

14. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?
(a) A child's drawing.
(b) A soul at peace.
(c) A poem.
(d) A flourishing nest.

15. What does a metaphor present?
(a) A tangible object described in full detail.
(b) A tangible object as an intangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.
(c) An intangible object as a tangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.
(d) An intangible object described in full detail.

Short Answer Questions

1. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?

2. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?

3. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?

4. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?

5. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?

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